Collar card for flat form laundered attached collar shirts



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COLLAR CARD FOR FLAT FORM LAUNDERED ATTACHED COLLAR SHIRTS Filed Sept.15. 1930 iWI M/m I MA, ar

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1 This invention relates to the art of holding the fronts of attachedshirt collars flat and smoo in flat form laundered shirts havingattached collars.

6 The bosom edges of such shirts are buttoned together and there hasbeen placed between the collar points and the shirt bosom of fiat formlaundered shirts, a flat card having a recess cut upward from the lowerto edge of the card, and adapted to allow the card to he slippeddownward with the edges of the recess between the shirt front and thebutton which holds the neck band ends together after the shirt islaundered in flat 15 form; and when the card is thus secured to theshirt front, the collar brought into flat form position over the card.It requires considerable time, skill, and attention to apply such fiatform collar holdace with their upper edges seated in the collar foldsand the edges of the recess inserted under the button.

An object of this invention is to provide a fiat form attached shirtcollar card that with less requirement of skill, with less expenditureof care, attention and time, and with greater ease, than with the formerfiat form attached collar card or slip.

An object of this invention is to provide means for securing the flatslip in true position for holding in collars of shirts laundered to fiatform.

In carrying out this invention 1 have provided a flat cardboard anchortemplet having a terminally widened shank, an obtuse crown at one endand an oval stock at the other end of the shank, and flat obtuse armextensions of the crown, the edges of which extensions are spaced from,stock, when in. flat form; arms are placed in the fold of the collar ofa flat form laundered shirt, the shank may be bent and the stock foldeddown inside the neck band, and into practical parallelism with saidcrown and arms, thus to hold the .coll'arends in ints and the shirtunder such points and smooth.

5! The advantages of the invention are that points are flat form theattached" and extend beyond, the

so that when the true position with the collar the device may be cut outof flatcardboard with great rapidity and at very sli ht expense; may bereadily assembled an packaged'in flat form for transportation; may bemore easily handled by the fingers of the operators, so that the work ofapplying and removing them from the shirt may-be done more easily andquickly and with less likelihood of displacement, fumbling, crumpllingor dropping, than with collar flat forms eretofore. I 1

Other objects, advantages and features of invention may appear-from theaccompanymg drawing, the subjoined detailed description and the appendedclaims.

The invention will be understood by reference to the accompanyingdrawing,-in which; Figure 1 is a fragmental view of a flat launderedattached-collar shirt to which the.

anchor templet is shown applied; a portion of the collar being brokenaway to expose the end of one of the anchor arms, and'dotted lines beingused to indicate the outer lapped end of the collar band and itssecuring button; dash lines being employed to indicate the position .ofthe stock folded inside the collar' band, and dot and dash linesindicating the flat position of the stock.

Fig. 2 is a face view of the anchor in its fiat form as a manufacture.

Fig. 3 is an edge view looking up at the edges of the anchor crown andas in the folded position of Fig. l, omitting the shirt band and collarshown in such figure.

The attached ping ends 3 and bosom 4 of the shirt 5 are all of commonconstruction, and are shown in the fiat ,form' customary for finishinglaundered shirts in flat form.

The cardboard anchor templet comprises a terminally broadened shank 6, atriangular rounded-nose plate 7 at one'end of the shank and an ovalstock 8 at the other end of the shank; the plate 'comprisingobliquerounded arm extensions 9 embracing a triangular corner space 10 open atone side 11, and accommodating the shank and-stock so that in fiat formthe plate be readily handled by the operator s fingers collar 1, neckband 2, lapthe stock,

without bending or distortion of plate, shank or stock, and can beshoved up under the collar and into the end folds thereof, while theshank is positioned between such fold ends, and then the oval stock canbe brought into position inside the shirt, thus bending the shank overthe collar band and into practical parallelism with the nose and arms ofthe plate, thus to hold the collar ends flat and In true position.

In practical manufacture, a row of dies, not shown, may be provided,extending across the platen of a printing press and the cardboard may befed to the press from a roll, not shown, and the anchors may beassembled and boxed in a manner well known in the art of disposing ofprinting-press card products.

It is understood that the flat surfaces of the anchor may be suppliedwith advertisements, 20 announcements or other rinted matter, not shown,and that the printing may be done on the cardboard either before orafter the anchors are stamped out.

The roundin nose and arms shown are sufiiciently sti to be easily caughtby the fingers and shoved up under the collar points, and into the foldsof the collar for the purpose, as there is no slot or recess to weakenit and when so placed a stroke on the stock bend the shank at thterminals causing the bend to be there located so that the work may bequickly and smoothly eifected. v By reason of the oval form of the stockand anchor arms, the work is not subject to interference from contact ofcorners that might cause the armsor the stock to bend or tw' out of trueform during the operation of bringing the card to true position. Iclaim 1. A device for holding in position the neck band ends andattachedcollar of a flat form laundered shirt, comprising a flat cardboardanchor having a terminally widened shank, an obtuse crown at one end,and'an oval stock at the other end of the shank and flat obtuse armextensions of the crown, are spaced from and extend beyond the stockwhen in flat frm;so that when the arms are placed in the fold of thecollar of a flat form laundered shirt, the shank ma be bent and thestock folded down inside t e neck band, and into practical parallelismwith said crown and arms, thus to hold the collar ends. in trueposition.

2. 'A fiat cardboard anchor templet comprising a terminally. broadenedshank; a triangular rounded-nose plate at one end of the shank and anoval stock at the other end of the shank; said plate comprising obliquerounded arm extensions embracing a triangular corner space open at oneside so that in at form the late is sufiiciently stifi to be readilyhandle b an operators fingers e without bending ore middle, the widenedrtion of the plate, the v shank or the stock; and can be shoved u underthe collar and into the ends of the fol thereof while the shank ispositioned between such fold ends; and such shank can then be bent overthe collar band and the stock 10 brought into the shirt behind the frontof such band.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto setmy hand at Los Angeles,California, this 5th day of Sept. 1930.

- 78 CHARLES M. MEAD.

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